GOTelecom 8 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075-0106 • Tel.: (212) 570-3588 • Fax (212) 774-0223 Toll-Free: 1-800-888-6835 Web: www.gotel.goarch.org • Email: gotel@goarch.org Marissa P. Costidis, Managing Director Email: marissa@goarch.org
Nicholas J. Furris, Senior Producer/Director Email: nickfurris@aol.com
MISSION The mission of GOTelecom is to serve the needs of the Greek Orthodox Church in America by producing and disseminating religious, cultural and educational mass media materials pertaining to Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic Tradition. Our goal is to help educate our Orthodox and Hellenic audiences so that they may develop pride and confidence about their faith and cultural heritage. Then we will work to educate the audience at large — so that together we may help develop the proper perceptions about Orthodoxy and Greek culture. The mission is three-fold:
daily duties include fulfillment of these orders. Additionally, GOTelecom has acquired the rights to distribute numerous outside productions. In addition to distribution relationships with Greek Orthodox distributors, i.e. Light & Life, we have established contracts with Vision Video, and bookstores of other Orthodox jurisdictions. Each parish in America should have our entire library of videotapes available in a “lending library.” Additionally, university, college and high school libraries should have our major titles available for research and information.
BROADCASTING
1) internally — to archive the activities of the Archdiocese,
GOTelecom staff produce and coordinate national promotion of events within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, including visits of His Eminence to parishes and communities in the US and overseas.
2) to produce in-house programs that educate and awaken our faithful about the ministries of our Archdiocese and, 3) to produce programs of quality that can be distributed nationally on television and through video (full-length programs and public service announcements).
OTHER GOTELECOM PROGRAMS: Throughout our 20 years, we have produced over 200 programs and have received awards from many organi zations. Our two EMMY Awards have shown our faithful that Orthodox Christianity can be proclaimed with originality and excitement … on videotape.
For His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios’ Holiday Messages, GOTelecom provides over 25 Greek television producers and over 60 radio producers in the United States with tapes for airing, at no cost.
DISTRIBUTION
Marissa P. Costidis, Managing Director, serves on the Membership Board of Faith & Values Media, whose member ship is composed of over 60 different faith groups. Faith & Values Media is a partner with the nationally distributed Hallmark Channel.
The Department has continued its sales of DVD and videotapes to our parishes, schools, universities and homes. Our
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Video Production from GOTelecom.
Nationally acclaimed photographer Joe McNally photographs Archbishop Demetrios for a ten year follow-up book to his bestseller Faces of Ground Zero. (May 2011)